I’m old enough to know better than to ask other grown men how old they are in a disrespectful manner. College football is a business, not a benevolent activity of student growth. If anyone here needs to grow up it’s you.
Yeah, I'm the one who demands players stay at a place they don't want to be and I need to grow up. LOL I guess any business should be able to force a person to stay at their employment or sit out a year if they leave their employment. That would be pretty dumb. Just like making players stay at the same school while their coaches can get up and leave any time.
If you want to pompously act as if you’re more mature than others, you may want to begin with cutting out the “LOL” bit. Just a suggestion.
Sorry. Your post really made me laugh.
UMass and UConn again? Good grief.
Look, we are all going to hate it when we lose a good player. But, we will love it when we get a guy that really helps us. In hoop, we lose a bunch of guys and get two starters and a sub. In football, our starting qb. like anything else, there will be winners and losers in this thing.
We have 5 wins. When will UMass and UConn combine for 5 wins? How many years?
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I have to ask you how old you are. Did you get the same rights when you were in college as teachers or other adults who had also in their past gone to school and were subject to the same rules that you were? Why do you feel players/ students should have all the same rights as coaches who are now out in the world supporting their families? A player can leave but I don't think for a second that there shouldn't be a wait period for somebody given a scholarship. There is give and take for everything in life or at least there should be. What don't you understand?
Actually, companies do this quite frequently with non-compete agreements and tuition reimbursement programs.
I think that is ridiculous. Why should they have to wait? Do I like it as a fan? No. But last I looked, as a student at Syracuse, I could have left and started taking classes right away at a new school. Just like my professor's could. Can a cheerleader be a cheerleader for a new school? A band member? A math club kid? By the way, I hate that kids can leave and play right away. as a fan. But I'm not so selfish that I can't see what is right and what is wrong. We don't like it because it hurts our rooting interest. Not for any solid reason.
I have been in a business with non compete for the last 40 years. I have never seen one hold up in court. Good luck with that. The tuition is a different story. The firm would have a right to get their money back if that was the deal they made.
That would be admitting the players are employees, which would mean they would have to be compensated. NCAA is avoiding that at all costs.
Maybe they're less tenable in your industry (media?) but they hold up quite well in others.
Do all those non athletes leaving have their tuition paid for? I would say that is a SUBSTANTIAL difference between the 2. Wouldn't you?
All the transfer portal did was create a farm system for the "BIG BOYS" ...If Ohio St, Bama, LSU, Clemson, Georgia...etc. Ever find themselves "thin" or "weak" at a given position heading into a season. They will use that offseason, through back-channels, to get word to a quality/good player at a smaller school (ie Indiana, Syracuse, Boston College, TCU...etc) and entice them to transfer to their school to make more $$$$ and to be on a larger platform to get noticed.
People in the thread are combining two different things, the Transfer Portal and the change to the transfer rule, that are related, but not the same. The Transfer Portal came first. It is a website where athletes announce that they want to transfer and allows schools to recruit them without being hit with a penalty for tampering. There have been a large number of athletes who have entered the portal and either withdrew their names or were not recruited by another school. The change to the transfer rule allows undergraduate athletes to one "free" transfer without having to sit out for a year like they did before. And, as OrangeXtreme pointed out, athletes must be in good academic standing in order to transfer and play immediately. Graduate transfers probably use the Portal to find another school to play for while they are in graduate school.
